Seattle: Antron Brown preview

Antron Brown on Seattle
"I'm excited to get back to Seattle. It's an awesome city, especially in
July. Our DSR Matco Tools team is excited to hit this Western Swing hard.
It's a busy three weeks, but the way our Matco Tools dragster is...

Antron Brown on Seattle

"I'm excited to get back to Seattle. It's an awesome city, especially in
July. Our DSR Matco Tools team is excited to hit this Western Swing hard.
It's a busy three weeks, but the way our Matco Tools dragster is running,
we can make up some ground in the standings. Our car has been running
really strong and we want to keep that going and build on our momentum
heading into the Countdown (to 1)."

Brian Corradi (crew chief) on Seattle

"We're ready to get back to racing. Our Matco team is doing a great job
and our car is running really well. It's always exciting to back to a
track that you've done well at. We'd like to keep running strong and
hopefully head into the Countdown (to 1) ranked in the top three."

Antron Brown Seattle NHRA Notebook

-Two weeks ago at Norwalk, Ohio, Brown qualified his Matco Tools dragster
in the No. 2 position for the second time this season at 3.795 seconds.
It was Brown's fourth 3.7-second elapsed time this year. On race day, he
bested Luigi Novell, Pat Dakin and DSR teammate Cory McClenathan to
advance to his fifth final round of the season. Brown fell in a close
match to two-time Top Fuel champion and current point's leader Larry
Dixon 3.880 to 3.907. On this heels of advancing to his 20th career Top
Fuel final round, Brown moved to fourth place in the standings.

-Last July at Pacific Raceways, Brown qualified his Matco Tools car in
the No. 10 position at 3.952 seconds at 305.84 mph. It was the only time
during the 2009 season that Brown qualified in the bottom half of the
field. On race day, he advanced to his sixth final round of the season
and defeated seven-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher in a close
final round match, 3.983 to 3.990, to earn his third win of the '09
season. Brown went on to become just the fifth Top Fuel driver to sweep
the three-race Western Swing. In his two tries at the Seattle race,
Brown's average qualifying position is 6.5.

-Brown, who won a category-best six races last season, enters the 14th
race on the 2010 NHRA schedule ranked fourth in the Top Fuel standings.
He trails two-time champion Larry Dixon by 327 points. Brown has five
final-round appearances this season (Gainesville, Charlotte 1, Houston,
Englishtown and Norwalk) and four No. 1 qualifiers (Gainesville, Las
Vegas 1, Topeka and Bristol). Last year, Brown had 10 finals and seven
poles. His average qualifying position in 13 races this year is 4.9.